Aerial toy



..I. HELLER AERIAL TOY Nov. 29, 1927.

Filed Jan. 10, 1927 $51 M mug Patented Nov. 29, 1927.

J N T D JOSEPH resv PATENT oFFrcE I HELLER, or NEW YORK, a. Y.

AERIAL TOY.

. Application flled'J' anuary 10,1927. Seria1.No. 160,023.

This invention relates to gamesand toys and especially such toys as aredesigned for not only amusement purposes for children, I

but also to impart to any persons a stimulus for inquiring into theprinciples of aero-" providea'eheaply constructed and attractivedevicein the nature of a toyforaerial pura sky scraper building, a

poses which may be utilized, amongjot-her things, for the carrying of anadvertisement and which maybe discharged froin anyelevated position, asfrom. the top or window of kite, or from an airship. v y

With theforegoing and other. objectsin view-the invention consists inthe arrangement and. combination of parts hereinafter described andclaimed, andwhile the inven-v tion is not'restricted to theexact detailsof construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the: purpose ofillustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to theaccompanying drawingsin which like reference characters designate, the.same parts in the several views, and 1n' wh1ch-'- Figure 1 is a faceview of oneside-ofmy';

improved. toy.

Fig. 2 is asimilar View of the other side. Fig. '3 is a plan view of theblank for the formation of the binder and weight member.

Fig. 4 is aplan view of theblank or pat- V tern for the blade. 1

V Fig. 5 is, a plan View of theblank of the stiffener and withindication of the relation thereto of the blade.

Fig. 6 is a transversese'ction on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

h Fig. 7 is a similar view onthe line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my device ascomprising an assemblage'of three parts,a blade 10, a stifi'ener 11, anda combined weight. and binder 12. I

The blade is formed from a single ply of thin light sheet material suchas onion skin or tissue paper and is providedwith a wide point portion13 remote from the narrower shank portion 14.. i

The stifi'ener as shown in- Fig. 5 is cut'or companion member 19. One ofthe disks,

ward or advancing edge 18 of'the blade is 6 applied to one ofthe halvesof the stiifener as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5while the shankportion 14 thereof overlaps one of the disks 16. The other half of thestiffener. then folded over, being superposed directly upon the firstmentioned half,-and the blade and stiffener members are then securedfirmly as by glue to one. another, constituting the .stifi'ener andblade as a unit.- The stiffener, as its name implies, stiflens andre-enforces the leading edge of the blade and holds such portion of theblade substantially flat. The stiffener and the blade constitute a widesmooth substantially fiat member upon either side of which may beprinted or otherwise. placed advertising matter or thelike for publicitypurposes. The device may be made so cheaply. that it is well adaptedforfree distributionwi'th bread or other. commodity, thus insuring awide range of publicity for the-message carriedthereby. The binder, iscut'or stamped from heavier material such as tin, aluminum, or otherthinfiat metal andpreferably of the design shown in Fig. 3, the samecomprising two disk portions '19 and19 unitedfto each other alongafoldable neck 20, and either of these disks bears preferably two spacedlugs '21 adapted to fold or "crimparound the other moreover, as forinstance 19*, is provided 7 with a shank extension 22 which bears at itspoint a laterally projecting lug 23.

Withthelug 23 bent upward at an angle while the'disk portion 16 will bereceived 105 and fit directly between the two disks ofthe' binder; Theother disk member 19 will then be brought down firmly upon the disks 16V and thelugs 21 bent or crimped around as shown in Fig. 2. The union atthe bending .1'10

to the plane of the shank 22, the combined line 20 and the lugs 21 serveto bind the disks oli'thc binder .tirmly together in flat form and thisbinding action together with the lug 23 serves to leek or bind theco1nbined stiffener and blade unit in the place indicated. The combinedweight and binder, while of thin structure, has a substantial degree ofweight as compared with the blade, and the shank 22 thereof carries asubstantial degree of stitlness from the binder out along the backboneor leading edge :24 oi: the stitl' ener. The portion oi the stitieneroutward theret'roin maintains a certain (le fIltQ ot stitlness, muchmore than the blade, especiallybeeanse of the fact that; it is formed oftwo parts gunnncd :tirinly together and embraced by a portion of thebinder. The trailing and point portion of the blade. beinp ot asingleply of thin stock. is free to flex in practice. 7

The operation of the toy is as Follows: \Vhen tossed into the air ordropped 'lrom any relatively high point or degree of elevation. for somereason, the seientitic explanation for which is not entirely elearto me,instead of the weighted or hinder end 12 ot the device gravitatingdireetlr and sharply to the ground, the toy almost inimi-aliately swingsinto a horizontal plane,

probably due to the lack of synnnetry thereof on opposite sides oi theaxis of the blade. and theneetorth the toy gravitates slowly,maintaining its horizontal position. but; spins rapidly around avertical axis some I where within the disk portion ot the weightedbinder, the free edge ot the blade trailing. Since the device grayitatesslowly and in a. substantially horizontal positioin it comes to restwith the least amount of likelihood of being damaged so that it may beprojected into the air repeatedly with results as above stated.

I claim:

1.. The herein described aerial toy comprising; a combined stifl'enerand blade, the blade being made of thin stock and the stitfener beingmade of heavier stock, the blade and stiffener being united in flat formto form a unit having a relatively rigid leading edge and a thin pliabletrailing edge, and a combined binder and weight member of disk formationconnected to one end of the unit aitj'oresaid andbeing of flatconstruction and all in substantially the same plane.

A toy as set forth in claim 1 in which the stitl'ener is formed from twosymmetrical parts folded one above the other and with the leading edgeof the blade held firmly between them.

8. A device as set forth in claim 1 in which the combined weight andbinder member comprises two flat portions mating with each other in themain and between which the shank portion of the blade and stitt'enerunit isgripped.

t. A construction as set forth in claim 1 in which the combined weightand binder member comprises a fiat disk having a relatively rigidextension leading along the leading edge of the stittener and havingmeans to secnre the stiffener thereto. i q

5. The herein described aerialtoy coin prising a weight having twosubstantially symmetrical and concentric disks adapted to be superposedone over the other, one or the disks having lugs toerimp over theperiphcry of the other for binding them together in flat form, a thinblade having one end projected from and between the disks, andstitt'ening means extending from the disks along the leading edge of theblade toimpart partial stitfness thereto. t

In testimony whereof I atlix in signature.

JOSEPHI ELLER.

